Amendments: three's a crowd.

• Author: Zelenski, James M.
• Position: Readers respond - Letter to the Editor

Thank you for reminding ColoradoBiz readers that the Gallagher amendment has been a contributing factor in Colorado's fiscal problems (On Colorado, Schwab, September).

As a result of the interaction of Gallagher and TABOR, virtually all of the growth in the market value of real property in Colorado over the last two decades escaped contributing to maintaining our K-12 schools.

It has been argued, relative to all three--Gallagher, TABOR and Amendment 23--that the provision standing on its own (Gallagher) is benign, and that it is "those other two amendments" that cause all of the problems The contrary can be just as powerfully argued: that...